Month: January 2015
Are American Clergy Suffering A Crisis Of Faith? by Elizabeth Glass Turner
January 8, 2015
It’s a mistake to criticize questioning by and in itself. An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith will last about as long as Farrah Fawcett hair, Hammer pants, beanie babies, MySpace, “Gangnam Style” and every other grass that withers and flower that doth fade away.
Confession by Maxie Dunnam
January 7, 2015
Beginning at the point of our believing that it is God’s desire to forgive, confession becomes not a morbid discipline, not a dark groveling in the mud and mire of life, not a fearful response to a wrathful, angry God who is out to get us if we don’t shape up. Rather, confession becomes an act of anticipation, a response to the unconditional call of God’s love…
The Scent Of A New Year by Michael Smith
January 5, 2015
New is unknown, and often we are afraid of the “what if” questions in our lives. But new is happening every day.
Go Tell It On The Mountain by Carolyn Moore
January 3, 2015
It began with Jesus, who invited twelve guys to quit their day jobs and enroll in a three-year intensive, seminary-level…
The Promise Of Silence by Michelle Bauer
January 1, 2015
When we refuse to be silent we are saying that we have nothing left to learn or that God has nothing left to say to us.